I broke and ordered one in the Amazon 3-4pm availability binge. It’ll arrive next week.
Exciting.
Internet’s still down, btw, and I’ve had a ridiculously long week. So expect more to follow as time starts to clear up around that Christmas thing that is rumoured to be happening soon. Apparently.
Whoops. And I have the costume uniform, sword and everything.
Despite my determination to keep to regular updates here, external factors may keep me silent. My DSL-modem is on the fritz and a new one won’t arrive for a couple of days, so updates will be occasional. I’m far too honourable to hijack my neighbours’ hotspots. Even the one with the Netgear SSID I can access from my living room sofa that has absolutely no security on it. Not even that one.
At least, it has as far as my bandwidth bills are concerned. Since I posted in response to Hugh’s original blog post, in the last 7 days I’ve had (according to Google Analytics):
3,569 visitors (+631%)
6,877 pageviews (+870%)
717% more referrals from Google
5100% more referrals from Technorati (I know, I get very few T’rati referrals)
My humble post has been viewed 5,406 times and is the most popular post on my blog ever (no 2 is this one with 1,827 views).
My bandwidth usage is also at 340MB of a 1GB cap (4 days into the month) — typically I use 600MB of bandwidth by the END of the month. All of my photos are hosted on Flickr, so don’t contribute. Cripes. Fortunately it seems to be dying down.
On the story itself, Hugh has full updates over at Gaping Void – particularly interesting is how the mainstream media picked up on the story, and the impact it has had on Threshers. Threshers’ employee Sam commented here on division6 today on how it is affecting him on the ground (and how to get six bottles of the same kind of wine if they don’t have it out front – ask – apparently it is hard to keep restocking with current demand!).
It’s all pretty durn impressive. Good stunt. I remain impressed. And plan to use my voucher this Saturday, if my local Threshers hasn’t run out of stock of everything.
This is awesome. Makes me want to buy both the console and the game. As well as the stunning graphics and fantastic reviews, of course… (of GoW).
I know the interweb’s a big place and all, but I can’t believe its taken me this long to find Bad Science (via Ben), a brilliant deconstruction of false, stupid, inaccurate representations of science in the media and the world at large.
The site, written by Dr Ben Goldacre, a “serious fcuk-off academic ninja,” includes his column from the Guardian (of the same name) alongside a bunch of bonus materials (correspondence with crackpot ‘scientists’ etc).
Worth reading for anyone with an interest in science, PR tactics that could go wrong, and people who think that equations about the popularity of TV programmes have any validity whatsoever.
Man, my Bloglines feed pool is getting big.
It’s a genius concept. Practical and safe.
Scrubs is genius. They keep making really poignant episodes. I’m such a sensie.
I think I might be related to Jables. Check out this photo of my brother, Arvind, and note the similarity of goatee to JB’s. Henceforth I shall be known as Armand D.
Today was the D-Line.
When I got the Orange Wednesday text in after a hard day’s, erm, rockin’, I was pretty psyched. Very few people I know showed any sign of enthusiasm, mild interest, or even moderate contempt at seeing this film: even my most juvenile friends thought it would be rubbish. Naysayers. They didn’t bother me. Patty Y joined me for what was possibly the cinematic experience of the century (according to the trailer).
It was Destiny.
The movie is exactly as good as it should be. Completely true to everything that is the D: fast paced, funny, coherent in a trippy sort of way, and definitely rocking. Man, does this movie rock. And whilst it plays to the conventions very well… it does some things differently. Sometimes when you expect it to rock… it rolls. And when you’re expecting a patronising speech… you get a bizarre lesson about Satan being in everyone’s heart.
I am not sure that non-fans, or the weak of spirit, will really get this film. I mean, if you don’t like swearing, then you can ******* **** right off. If you don’t like rocking, well, you too, buddy. So I don’t know if I can, in good conscience, recommend it to everyone. But if you’ve ever chuckled at *any* of Jack Black’s songs, go see Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny, on a disappointingly limited release in the UK right now. It won’t make you laugh as much as Borat did, but it will make you laugh.
Oh, and that couple that was making out in the front of the cinema at the Trocadero? What was that all about? Mind you, I suspect the D would approve…
Aside: my ultimate team-up right now. For a band, project, comic book, whatever:
Jables & Cage
Kevin Smith
Neil Gaiman
John Cusack
Matt Stone & Trey Parker
Scarlett Johannson (because she should be in everything)
That would be great.
This is quite funny, if you have some time to spare and can cope with simultaneous video clips. To be honest, they all look the same to me, quality wise. YouTube has better community, Revver pays you for content, and, erm, Google Video… owns YouTube? That’s pretty much its strongest feature.
Via Scoble: I must get about half my interesting links at the moment between Scoble and BoingBoing. The volume of Scoble’s posts is scary. Oh, Chris Pirillo is the man who made the video.